Just a fabulous evening with so many people enjoying their practice… this is what drew me here in 1997 … the heart of London golf.

Question – how do you get up and down from here?!

“One concept I work on with a lot of good players is the principle of making a part of your practice MORE difficult than the game itself. Almost every other sport understands and employs this tactic apart from golf! When I gave a series of lectures in Australia a number of years ago, I was absolutely fascinated to watch a video of THE greatest test batsman of all time, Sir Donald Bradman, practising. What Bradman did from an early age and all the way through his incredible career, was to practice his batting with a golf ball and a cricket stump.  He would fling the golf ball against a wall and then he would have to defend the golf ball with the cricket stump.

He often said no bowler could EVER produce that kind of speed.

You can imaging how the game appeared to Bradman when he took to the pitch with a bigger bat and a bigger ball. Marathon runners train at altitude so that when they drop down to normal sea level the running seems easier. Yet, at golf what do we do? We will stand there for hour after hour hitting a ball from a perfect lie to a WIDE open area (range).

Then we wonder why we cannot take our range game to the course!!!”

Got me thinking about making golf more difficult. Blimey, is it not tough enough…

How about a voucher for golf lessons with one of the Pros at Dukes Meadows!!

Go to www.dukesmeadows.com for more information.

HSBC hosted a media launch of their ‘Wee wonders’ tournament today and I was so impressed by Monty. 7am to 4pm solid and smiles all day long. That lost me one bet.

Then watching him play the first hole at Dukes Meadows six times with the young players in -3 under par. That lost me another score.

Still, I got his autograph…